According to his twitter feed Tor severely marked up the the manuscript in the errata for his first book which is already a year late. He's behind on his second book as it had a due date I believe of August 31st. Every day the pressure on him to finish and produce best selling works grows.

"the most despised man in science fiction" ... "the most popular blog in science fiction"

If I knew nothing about this situation at all, I'd immediately go check out the former. A man is always more interesting than a blog, and in an age of "tolerance," a man being deemed intolerable by public opinion inherently piques the curiosity.

The warren shun-shaming Vox brings to mind Wright's Golden Age trilogy. Being kicked out of society was the catalyst for Phaethon's ultimate victory. (Having covered Gamma and Delta protagonists, for a Sigma protagonist Phaethon's story is a stand out example)

Worlds Edge wrote:Scalzi recently did some sort of 10th anniversary post where he announced that blogs no longer matter, blogs are extinct, blogs are so yesterday. Made me sad. #BlogLivesMatter , Johnny.

Worlds Edge wrote:Scalzi recently did some sort of 10th anniversary post where he announced that blogs no longer matter, blogs are extinct, blogs are so yesterday. Made me sad. #BlogLivesMatter , Johnny.

If Scalzi's numbers were up he'd brag about being one of the last great blogs, bucking the trend, the importance of a few bright spots, etc. In other words: SJWAL.

VD wrote:Scalzi recently did some sort of 10th anniversary post where he announced that blogs no longer matter, blogs are extinct, blogs are so yesterday.

You can always tell when you've beaten a gamma. He declares the competition either a) doesn't exist or b) doesn't matter.

From my experience debating leftists gammas online it usually follows the pattern of them first fighting you tooth n nail. When that fails they resort to the hyperbole. When that fails they claim you have no life (SJWAL Rule #3). When that fails they usually slink away, but I have had more than one try to claim they were dying of some horrible illness, and I'm such a meanie for winning. I usually LOL at that point.

@5: "According to his twitter feed Tor severely marked up the the manuscript in the errata for his first book which is already a year late. He's behind on his second book as it had a due date I believe of August 31st. Every day the pressure on him to finish and produce best selling works grows."

John must be torn. On the one hand, he must feel immense pressure to finish the books. But on the other hand, he must feel similar pressure to rush to his wounded muse's defense.

Likely outcome: Emporher Hillary will just have to take a number and stand in line, after Tor of course.

John Scalzi allegedly wrote OMW in 2001. In December 2002, he allegedly posted a chapter per day on Whatever at scalzi.com. He posted the last chapter on December 28, 2002. Then he posted his "Lessons from Heinlein" post that night. He then emailed the link to the "Lessons" post to PNH at Tor...allegedly unsolicited.

36 hours later on December 30, 2002 PNH read the book and offered him a two book deal that day. They jointly announced the deal and the remarkable "first SF book to be a blog first" on January 3rd, the 1st business day at Tor after the holiday.

At that time, the december posts were erased completely. The Wayback Machine has captures from November and January, but December never pinged.

So my questions remain to this day:

Why the extreme rush to sign and announce a previously unread SF author? PR-wise, it was absolutely buried. Maybe the PR announcement wasn't important to PNH, but that just means the rush contract is even more curious.

Why are there no broken links from other sites in Dec 2002 to the online novel? Inbounds and hattips were a major feature of blogs at that time, and older posts by Scalzi have incoming links from others who enjoyed his columns.

But a semi-popular columnist posts a chapter a day of a free groundbreaking SF novel for a month ...and no one ever linked to it? No artifacts of it remain?

Yet two days after it is allegedly posted it is offered a contract over a holiday and taken down? This guy who never expressed much interest in SF before this (Agent to the Stars doesn't count. That is a satire of his struggles in Hollywood, not a SF book).

New hypotheses: Did PNH workhire OMW ahead of time in conspiracy with Scalzi and concoct the "first blog book" strategy?

Does the apparently incongruous selection of Heinlein mil-SF by scalzi (who has never indicated, before or after, an interest in Mil-SF trace its origin instead to PNH?

Also, don't forget Mike is shadowbanned, hashtag banned and has trending posts censored by the SJWs at Twatter while scalzoid's desperate virtue signalling will be promoted way beyond its actual impact. So mike is beating him with both hands tied behind his back, so to speak.

Writing hashtags that give twitter butthurt don't autocomplete, sure its minimal but when you are writing tweets all day it accumulates and makes life easier for 'tards like scalzoid constantly tweeting, "hashtag, # cause du jour!" with insta-completion and auto-added emoticon for emphasis - btw this is the topic being discussed.

And thanks for making my point for me with your second statement, on the right (although I'd say, "not expressly left" is more accurate than right)

Seriously, it truly is the fact that they make you stronger the more they try to kill you. I had never even heard of Vox Day until the whole Sad Puppies 2 thing last year (I was in on Sad Puppies 1, but hadn't noticed him). One thing led to another and I came by and read stuff now and again. Now, I am close to a daily visitor here. I have disagreements with some of the stuff Vox says, and am not sure I am really part of the alt-Right, but I can certainly get 100% behind "never shoot at anyone who is shooting at your enemies," so I don't really care about little disagreements when there are huge gaping maws of distance between me and the SJW left. So, by screaming at the top of their lungs about Vox, the idiots pulled yet another person into the orbit of the Dark Lord. Brilliant work on their part.

@55 You're welcome. Perhaps you took me for a leftist, but my point is that most right-wing posters also face the same difficulties as Cernovich. He isn't being singled out to the degree that, say, Milo was.